Surrogates

We went and saw Surrogates last night.  It’s the newest movie from Bruce Willis about how the earth became subject to people’s own laziness; that’s sounding less and less like science fiction every day!  Trying to get people outside to do something in real life here is an exercise in patience all of it’s own.  The small group of us are constantly going out and having fun in the real world but there is an entire civilization of people around us that would rather sit in their house, hotel, apartment or condo and do nothing but watch TV and DVDs while playing video games.  Wake up, people!

I’ve been using those new washer sheets for a while now and I’m pretty impressed.  These are the sheets that already have a pre-measured amount of laundry detergent in them and they have a strip of fabric softener at the top.  I think the fabric softener is supposed to melt in the heat of your dryer and spread around to all your clothes but I’ve found it just gets marks on my Blues shirts and makes me wash them again.  I just don’t transfer the sheet to the dryer when I’m washing my uniforms and everything turns out clean and smelling slightly of a summer day.  And for the record, these are much easier to travel with than a bottle of detergent.  That and I can just throw one in my laundry basket when I’m getting ready to take a load to the washer and not have to worry about carrying the whole messy bottle of liquid with me.  Great idea, let’s work on making them a little less expensive.

I got a watch lately that has tritium vials on the numbers and hands to make them easy to see at night.  I thought it was going to be some hokey form or glow in the dark paint that doesn’t really do much after about an hour or so in the dark, but it turns out tritium is a radioactive isotope of helium and it glows when it decays and reacts with the phosphors painted on the inside of the glass vials.  I’m just hoping this is the kind of radioactivity that gives me superhuman strength or x-ray vision and not a disease.  I jest; I’ve been told there are no ill effects because tritium cannot be absorbed through the skin so long as it’s contained in glass and it doesn’t emit harmful beta particles that would cause any ill effects.  Let’s hope they weren’t just lying.